I don't think one should name a gun until it's been used defensively. Thoughts?

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Naming guns? That’s crazy, I only name shoes, light bulbs and ladder steps.:D
 
I larnt th' namin' o' things from ol' Davy Crockett, a gen-ew-wine 'Merican hero, an' his "Ol' Betsy," th' gun what luv'd 'im. Yu bohoys what's got a problem wit th' x-ample set by thet fahn patr't 'n' pi-o-neer oughter not be so jedgment'l agin a ol' tradishun as wuz set by th' King 'o' the Wild Frontier hisself. :cool:

(Wahl, aktchuly, wuz from Fess Parker on th' Boob Tube 'round 'bout 19 and 55) ;)
 
If I put names on them, I'd never be able to remember which was which.

Now the premise of this thread is that the inanimate object somehow is supposed to EARN a name????

Alrightee then.

In my 26 yrs in the Marines I never knew anybody that admitted naming a firearm. The guy that did that in "Full Metal jacket" was a whackjob. A whackjob created by a Hollywierd writer. Says something, doncha think????

I did know an Ex-AF guy who told the most outrageous Rambo stories about his exploits in the jungles of Ton Sun Nuht AFB (AKA Siagon, RVN)...he named his guns. BTW, he was an Airframes Mech by trade in the AF. His Rambo stories (related to me by a girl he was working hard to impress) made me chuckle.

To each his own...that's the beautiful thing about America!
 
I don't name my guns. My guns are just guns, or more specfically, my rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and pistols. Not "boom sticks", "hand cannons" or my least favorite, "shotties". I have never known a man who could break 25 straight or knock down a limit of geese who claimed to have done it with a "shottie", and I have never known anyone who said "shottie" to break 25 straight or knock down a limit of geese.

I don't name my cars. My Rambler American was always referred to as "My Rambler American".

I don't name my body parts, and I don't have names for my wife's body parts.

I named my kids, and spelled their names like everybody would think they would be spelled. That way, they don't have to (for example) spend their lives getting "Caitlin" changed to "Kaytlin" on all their legal documents, mail, and utility bills.

I named my dogs.

My only whimsy with names is that if I flew a combat aircraft, I would name it "Wages of Sin", and have painted on the nose the Grim Reaper's skeletonized hand holding a bag of coins...

...and hope he never offered them to me!
 
I didn't name this one. A LEO that carried it did. He called it "Valium" because he said people seemed to calm down if he had to bring out of the leather.
When I refiinished it, I had it engraved on the slide before I blued it. Sort of a respect thing, you know?
 

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when you get to a certain age...

things tend to acquire "names" by default. In the midst of a senior moment the food processor becomes the " chop whirly" or the vacuum sweeper becomes the "suck wobbly" or the dog becomes " dammit". We also have a goldfish named DollarSixty. Under the circumstances I think it not unreasonable that when something goes bump in the night I pick up Thumper before going to check on it. Call it what you will, its just one of those things that makes us human.
 
No.

I do name my individual ammunition cartridges, though.

Its terribly upsetting when I send them down-range.
 
I don't think one should name a gun until it's been used defensively. Thoughts?
I also think that one shouldn't name a car until you've gotten out of a tight spot with it. I named my car "Caroline" after recovering safely from hitting a patch of ice at 65mph and fishtailing for a good 100 yards between a concrete barrier and a semi.

None of my guns have names, because none of them have been used defensively.

What do y'all think?
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I think it is pretty darned silly. I guess you don't name your dogs until they have bitten intruders or your kids until they have shot their first deer.
 
I dont name my guns, I got nothing against naming them, though, I always just refer to them as what they are.

As far as naming it only after you've used it defensively, that's dumb. That would be something like not naming your kid until he's 7 years old.
 
For reasons I'll never understand my youngest child started naming things a while back. She named my hideout piece "Bob". When we left the house, she would ask if Bob was coming, too. At the time I thought this was somewhat amusing, and noticed that she giggled sometimes when referring to "Bob". I finally asked why she called it "Bob", and why she smirked and giggled about it. She then informed me that it also had a last name. When I asked what the last name was, she told me "It's Oom", and giggled. I didn't make this leap of understanding this, and she had to explain "it's name is Bob Oom!"

Kids.......:rolleyes:
 
When I was a little kid I was given my long dead grampa's S&W revolver. When I was still a little kid but a little bit older, one of his aquaintances told me a story about my grampa. He refered to my revolver as an old "Hog leg". Well after that I refered to it as Hog leg. It wasn't until much later that it was "used defensively". That is the only firearm that I have ever named . I don't think that I will ever name another. Just doesn't seem important.
 
I named my MAK-90 "Mack" after Catherine Bell's character on JAG. Just as good-looking, sleek and deadly. Smooth trigger too. Everything about the gun is smooth.

I named my 2A1 Navy Arms Jungle Carbine "Sweet Ishy" because it fits her and she has a lot more bark & bite than she looks.

the others don't have names yet
 
My wife and I named my CCW so if I bent over and exposed it in say, the grocery store or someplace public, she could tell me it was exposed without saying....your gun is showing and creating a panic.

We call it Kirby because like the vacuum, it pretty much eats anything I feed it.

No matter what gun I carry, it get referred to as Kirby as our code to remain incognito. Have not had to ever use it just yet, but it has been discussed since we live in the more liberal locale in America. No need to give the hippies anything else to pontificate endlessly about. :) Bless their liberal hearts ;)
 
Dirty Harry: We can't let you do that.

VCA: "WE?"

Dirty Harry: Me and Smith and Wesson. <BOOM>
 
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